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Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers. The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a refreshing realism to literature. It remains a challenging text and is studied widely. It is particularly effective on audiobook in the hands of Nottinghamshire reader Paul Slack.

The year is 1919, and the Great War has ended. As everyone picks up the pieces of their lives, I have only copious amounts of alcohol and women keeping me together. Most of the men I went to war with didn't make it home, including my best friend, Miles. I thought I knew everything about him until I discovered he made me the executor to his little sister Rainey's dowry. 

Peril and passion on enemy seas… Lottie Livingstone bears the weight of an island on her shoulders. Under threat of losing their home, she and her clan take to the seas to sell a shipload of illegal whiskey. When an attack leaves them vulnerable, she transforms from a maiden daughter to a...

Sons and Lovers was the first of Lawrence's major works, and is still considered to be one of his best. The 1913 novel, partly autobiographical and set in the coalmining village of Bestwood, is notable for being the first English novel to be genuinely working-class in origin and focus.

Transporting you to 1930 and the beautiful, remote island of St Kilda, The Lost Lover is a sweeping historical romance from bestselling author Karen Swan. 'A novel you’ll simultaneously want to savour and race through' - Jill Mansell, author of An Almost Perfect Summer An epic first love. A...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read the heartwarming new novel from the international million-copy bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop Nothing says love like a book . . . In a little town in the south of France, a young orphan, Marie-Jeanne, discovers the extraordinary power of books to...

New York, 1953. For Alana Olson, there's always been something about Picasso. An art historian and aspiring journalist, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late mother's strange fascination with the man that inspired Alana's doctoral thesis on his work. Then an assignment for a profile on Picasso from her dream publication leads Alana to a series of intimate interviews with Sara Murphy and Irene Legut - two women from the once-vibrant French social circle that included the artist.

It is 1951, and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England to Spain in search of distraction and respite. The two wars have wreaked loss and deprivation upon the family and the spectre of Meredith's troubled childhood continues to haunt them. Their journey to the rugged peninsula of Catalonia promises hope and renewal. While there they discover the artist Salvador Dali is staying in nearby Port Lligat. Meredith is fascinated by modern art and longs to meet the famous surrealist.

She's running from London's marriage mart. He's running out of time to save his estate. Neither intends to fall in love—but their hearts have other plans. American heiress Calliope Hart is thrust into London's high society against her will, all because her mother is determined to marry her off...

There’s no matchmaking an unruly heart When a prominent Scottish family faces a major scandal weeks before their daughter’s wedding, they turn in desperation to the enigmatic fixer for the aristocracy, Nichol Bain. Remarkably skilled at making high-profile problems go away, Nichol...

Als Henry Digbys langjährige Freunde von den Fortuna's Lovers plötzlich Heirat und Familie planen, statt sich den von ihm erdachten skandalösen Wetten zu widmen, ist er mehr als verärgert. Er will seine Aufgabe unbedingt lösen, um es den Lords zu zeigen. Doch dazu ist er auf Hilfe angewiesen. Hilfe, die er nur bei Winifred Masterson, einer verzweifelten jungen Frau aus der Mittelschicht, findet. Ohne über die Konsequenzen nachzudenken, macht Henry ihr ein Angebot, das sie nicht ablehnen kann.

Zwischen Pferderennen und Debütantinnenbällen trifft ein Lord auf seine Jugendliebe. Flammen, die er längst verloschen glaubte, werden neu entfacht. Belinda Dudley hat ihre unglückliche erste Liebe nie vergessen. Eine Vernunftehe hat sie neun Jahre lang von dem Mann ferngehalten, der ihr Herz gebrochen hat. Als sie frisch verwitwet ihre junge Nichte in die Londoner Gesellschaft einführen soll, kann sie ein erneutes Aufeinandertreffen nicht verhindern. Was soll nach so langer Zeit schon passieren? Baron Quentin Trent ist einer der begehrtesten Lords der Londoner Damenwelt.

Ein vertauschtes Erbe. Eine gefährliche Entdeckung. Eine verbotene Liebe. Nach dem Mord an ihrer Cousine Elvira und dem Verrat durch ihre Mutter ist Inez Olivera am Boden zerstört. Als ihr Onkel Ricardo ihr ein Ultimatum bezüglich ihres Erbes stellt, bleibt ihr nur noch ein Ausweg: Whitford Hayes zu heiraten. Doch der Assistent ihres Onkels hat seine eigenen mysteriösen Gründe, in Ägypten zu bleiben.

Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of Yaa Gyasi, Esi Edugyan and James Baldwin - gripping and intimate historical novel of a black soldier's experience in the Second World War - a rare, moving and authentic tale of love and sacrifice by the acclaimed British-Nigerian author of THE BOOK OF...

In 1941, Queensland drover, Michael McTavish leaves behind his young daughter Gracie and joins the 2/22 AIF, his destination, Rabaul, New Guinea, a small town surrounded by impenetrable jungles and steep jagged mountains, its shores lined by tranquil bays and active volcanos. Joanie has also...

Brought to you by Penguin. **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RTÉ GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences 1980s Cork. Jack Shine discovers a shoe box full of love letters in his...

The USA Today bestselling author of The Gown returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel—as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation. It is...

Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a “lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle” (Edna O’Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from...

The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa...

Daring aviators take the skies by storm in this historical romance filled with unconventional women - and the men strong enough to love them.